After Fox News host Bill O’Reilly mocked the recent New York Times profile of Fox’s Megyn Kelly as a “puff piece” on Monday night, Kelly called out her colleague for merely being envious.
“Jealousy is an ugly emotion, Bill,” she quipped.
O’Reilly then continued to complain that the Times loved Kelly, but showed no affection for the other hosts at the network. When Kelly asked O’Reilly why he thought the Times favored her, he said she is “charming.”
“Oh my God, it’s on camera — this is awesome,” Kelly said about O’Reilly’s compliment. “Another puff piece, right now, is happening at this moment.”
Kelly said that Times reporter Jim Rutenberg was “very fair” to her and the rest of Fox News.
“Not only was he fair to me, he was fair to the Fox News Channel and to our boss, Roger Ailes,” she said. “A lot of people want to make Roger Ailes into the boogieman because they’re jealous of his success. They’re afraid of Fox News. He (Rutenberg) told it like it is.”
Although O’Reilly once consistently led Fox News in the ratings, Kelly beat O’Reilly in the 25-34 age group for the first time in June.
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H/t Raw Story
O’Reilly is ‘jealous’ of anyone that may take the spotlight off of him for a few moments.
Yup… she put a little tarnish on his crown and he ain’t havin that.
yep everyone is jealous of a orginization that continues to lie with relish to its hate inspired viewers thru fear and division of this country for the benefit of its tru ayn rand hero’s the koch bros and their ilk to sabatoge everything that makes this country great
Billo won’t make this mistake with Kelly. She’s an ex-lawyer who would clean his clock.
Billo got jealous?
Really?
Wait…the Fox network doesn’t exist to stroke his personal ego?